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Stories from ‘the middle of somewhere” all across the country. Broadcast only account of reporter Salena Zito:

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After almost 3 years and lots of nagging from my friends, colleagues and readers I am putting up an unmonitored Twitter account of my stories from across the country that will be updated several times a day. If you want to interact with me go here ❤️
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"Spare me the soaring accolades from people with their fingerprints on the blades in our President's back." @JohnFetterman to me on the rush from Democrats to say how accomplished a president @JoeBiden has been minutes after pushing him out
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The Trump advance man laid on top of us when the second set of bullets went off—God Bless him. The Presidents hat fell in front of me as he was led off
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My interview with President Trump today where he talks about yesterday’s events, how it changed him and how that led to him to ultimately “meet the moment” and rewrite his convention speech.
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Trump rewrites Republican convention speech to focus on unity not Biden - Washington Examiner

WORLD EXCLUSIVE - Donald Trump tells the Washington Examiner that his speech at the Republican National Convention has been torn up and will call for unity.

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Great interview this evening with former President Donald Trump in Harrisburg Pennsylvania story tomorrow
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I was in the bumper when it happened. Felt the bullets go right past. Hit the ground Trump advance man laid on top of me and protected me until all clear.
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I will say Vance has found his stride this week.
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Incredible move by JD Vance… Vance and Harris both landed on the same tarmac in Wisconsin. He went over to reporters covering AF2 and talked because he knew Kamala wouldn’t. "I thought you guys may get lonely, bc the VP doesn't answer q’s from reporters"
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I’ve interviewed @JDVance1 dozens of times over the years—this one at a trade school in Cincinnati was enlightening — when he decides he will step up & let the student draw his blood because she became so nervous to have hers drawn was quite the moment
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There are some journalists letting harris speak all kinds of falsehoods and there appears to be few in the mainstream legacy media fact checking all or any of her info. it is though the entire legacy media has become a platform for Harris to come out and say whatever she wants.
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Axios’ @sarafischer : “ @elonmusk will let Donald Trump speak all of the falsehoods & misinformation that he wants. I mean, he’s not a journalist … Does he want to be fact checking all the information? So I think it‘s just a platform for Trump to come out say whatever he wants.”
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Someone just sent me this
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Like Trump or not facts are indisputable David; the only candidate in this race who is in a cocoon is yours And your tweet is only meant for harris supporters to get all self important & condescending over. Trump debated on CNN/ABC/NBC in 2016-2024 hardly friendly territory.
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Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.
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Philly radio host says she was sent questions from the White House to ask Biden CNN “if the White House is trying to prove the vim, vigor, & acuity of the president don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview & the president knows what’s coming”
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Market down how many thousands of points since last Wednesday? The Middle East is at the brink of war. Iran bombed our military base in Iraq. How is it OK that we haven’t heard from the President? How is it that White House correspondents aren’t publicly calling for this?
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BREAKING: Several U.S. personnel injured in rocket attack against military base in Iraq, sources say - Reuters
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Within a span of 36 hrs the Democrat establishment, a former president, almost all of Hollywood & progressive billionaire donors have ruthlessly pushed out Biden, a man they have known for a very long time to be frail & locked in Harris without once having to answer to voters
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This is scrawled across the wall of Allderdice High School located in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, the predominantly Jewish community where the massacre at Tree of Life Synagogue took 11 lives in the worst attack against Jews in US history in 2018-story this afternoon
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Americans Have Not Forgotten the 13 Soldiers
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Americans Have Not Forgotten the 13 Soldiers, by Salena Zito

MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — When judging the nation's character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of all...

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Mother daughter work day
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Shirley Hall has always lived in Tyrone, been a Catholic & a registered Democrat, attributes a profound part of her identity. She’s still a Catholic, but last week when watching Trump walk into the convention hall she changed her registration on the spot.
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Lifetime Pennsylvania Democrats are becoming Republicans - Washington Examiner

Pennsylvanians in large numbers aren't just moving Donald Trump's way but actually reregistering from Democrat to Republican.

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Trump said his decision to raise his hand when the Secret Service was leading him off stage was to let the people there know he was OK, “And that America goes on, we go forward, that we are strong.”
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My interview with President Trump today where he talks about yesterday’s events, how it changed him and how that led to him to ultimately “meet the moment” and rewrite his convention speech.
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Trump told me he wanted to take advantage of a historic moment to draw the country together. “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger…Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”
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My interview with President Trump today where he talks about yesterday’s events, how it changed him and how that led to him to ultimately “meet the moment” and rewrite his convention speech.
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This tells us they all knew. Pelosi. Schumer. Harris. Casey. Coons. Every single one of them and so many more. If this was the case in October of 2021 then heads should roll for what happened in August of 2021. How did no one have the courage to step up?
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Biden a figurehead for last 3 years. Insane that we are just now learning this.
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Rest assured, if we had no immigration problem, vice president Kamala Harris would be running on the fact that she’s the border czar, and everybody knows it.
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How about this. How about go to middle America and find families who hit hard times. How finances & instability almost shredded their family. Or alcoholism. How they almost divorced. Twice. But didn’t & kept their marriage together.
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J. D. Vance’s grandparents, immortalized in “Hillbilly Elegy” as Mamaw and Papaw, had a deeply troubled marriage, and Vance praises them for sticking it out. But records show that they entered divorce proceedings twice.
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In the words of Al Gore, the fact that Harris is the border czar is an inconvenient truth. No matter how much they try to get rid of the inconvenience, the truth, inviolable, remains.
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On Kamala Harris’s role, media cross border into outright lies - Washington Examiner

The media's rampant, politicized dishonesty is on awful display as it tries to hide this fact: Kamala Harris was tasked with stopping the illegal immigrant flow

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Less than 2 minutes before the first three shots; my son-in-law and daughter right beside me in the bumper.
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The band of Trump Vance supporters, waving signs at the busy intersection were 18 miles as the crow flies from the Warren Stellantis plant where workers just got the word that as many as 2,450 of them will be laid off beginning the first week of October.
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Plagued by inflation, working-class Michiganders turn to Trump - Washington Examiner

Michigan autoworkers show significant enthusiasm for Donald Trump for president.

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⁦ @SenFettermanPA ⁩ says if we want peace, Israel needs to be able to destroy Hamas
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Fetterman says if we want peace, Israel needs to be able to destroy Hamas - Washington Examiner

PITTSBURGH — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has emerged as one of the most reliable supporters of the Jewish community in his hometown, which is located a handful of miles from where the deadliest...

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These ads are the soundtrack of Middle America’s daily anxiety. The sounds that Biden-Harris dismissed as transitory. The sounds that Paul Krugman called rural rage.
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Make America Great Again, one of the Trump SuperPACs, is running a new series of 15 second digital ads on Google with no voiceover and text on screen. The footage and text on screen focuses on economy, immigration, and crime. Every ad ends with: “Courtesy of Kamala Harris.”
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1.) Son sends photos of homemade bread & pizza he made tonight 2.) daughter sends photo of homemade bread she made tonight 3.) I send photo back of the homemade stuffed cabbage I made tonight If I did 1 thing right with my kids i’m going with the cooking; they’re both good cooks.
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Yup. Not the speech America needed in this moment. It is the speech Biden wanted to give for Biden for his moment.
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Ohhhhhh so this is state of the union speech. Got it.
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Who was the last person in the room?
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Remarkable to see all of this American military equipment being paraded by the Taliban.
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Thank you!!!!
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🥁 roll please… We have the winners of the 2024 MRC Bulldog Awards! Congrats to @VDHanson , @benshapiro , @SethDillon , @ZitoSalena , @peterschweizer , @KassyDillon , and @DennisPrager ! 🧵 Read more:
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DRIVE-IN NIGHT!!!!
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Kroger had a steep decline in 2023 profits. So did Publix. Both are “big corporations” with Kroger falling to a 2.06 percent profit. This kind of big government effort will impact local jobs, close stores and crush local farmers.
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"This is long overdue. People are tired of just accepting higher prices." — @SenBobCasey on combating price gouging. VP Harris plans to propose the first-ever federal ban on 'corporate price-gouging in the food and grocery industries,' her campaign announced late Wednesday.
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It’s like no one remembers how well “basket of Deplorables” went over. And if your caveat is “oh, I’m just talking about Trump & Vance & not the voters” you do not understand the psychology of a voters mind. They know you are calling them weird too. They can hear your code.
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I'll just say it: Donald Trump and JD Vance are creepy and, yes, weird. We are not going back.
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Since no one my profession seems to be asking Walz or Harris any questions, whether you like Trump or not, that shouldn’t get in the way of pointing out a lie. Trump disavowed project 2025 weeks ago & since I’m at it, why has no one touched Walz on the crass Vance/couch lie?
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This election is about what direction the country will go in. Donald Trump would damn sure take us backwards. Don't believe him when he plays dumb: He knows exactly what Project 2025 will do to restrict our freedoms.
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Trump is in Kent County for his rally—it was the very last stop of the 2016 campaign. He won it narrowly in 2016 48-46—lost it narrowly in 2020.   I often report that the Trump team intuitively grasps the sense of place this place is about the working class AND suburban voters
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Becomes Democratic nominee for president taking zero questions from the press. Curious where the voices among the national print & cable & network news organizations & individual reporters voicing deep concerns. There is so much the public does not know.
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic nominee for president after getting enough delegates
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The people who could not keep their health insurance have words.
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NEW: Harris will NOT seek to ban fracking if she's elected president, an official with her campaign told me. When she was running for prez in a crowded 2019 primary, she did support a fracking ban.
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Yes. Joe Biden. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Has a presidential nominee ever agreed to a debate, then pulled out? Remarkable show of weakness here.
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Beshear comes from one of the most powerful political families in Kentucky. Vance’s grandparents who raised him, were from Breathitt County where he spent a significant part of his life. You cannot strip someone of their sense of place just because you don’t like their politics
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Gov. @AndyBeshearKY : JD Vance ain’t from here
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I’m hearing a lot of this out here in the wild. A lot. A LOT. My personal favorite was “I am so ardently resolved to vote for Trump that I would traverse a mile of shattered glass to cast my ballot.”
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Through two primaries and two general elections I have never voted for Trump. I would crawl over broken glass to vote for him now.
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“In the constant autopsy of what other candidates got wrong we forget to talk about what Trump got right & this was one of those moments that were pivotal that people have overlooked” Trumps inflection point began where no one was looking; East Palestine
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Per @TedAFischer photo of last lineup at Cleveland Cliff’s Weirton Steel Plant that employed 1OK workers from PA West Virginia & Ohio at 1 time. It’s so heartbreaking the collateral damage this has on communities. Biden admin ITC decision led to closure
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22 yrs ago nearly 3000 people went to bed not knowing they would never hug the people they love or tell them one last time how much they mean to them…Hold tight to your friends & family, let go of anger & bitterness, life is too damn short. #neverforget #neverforget911 🇺🇸
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“I lived breathed Trump, so this isn’t something that comes lightly. I took a lot of heat for supporting him in 2016 and I am prepared for heat for not supporting him now, but it is time to look forward, not relive the past. “No one owns me”
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This is so awesome
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In San Ang Tx, I get on the hotel elevator with a woman. I looked at her and said, "you look familiar 🤔I asked her where are you from? She’s says Oklahoma, I replied me too! Then she says Demarco! Me: 🤔Mrs. Rodriguez? She was one of my elementary teachers. The year 1997 lol 😂
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I ask him that if he wins what will he tell the people four years from now that he delivered for them “I think more than anything else, hope. Because the people of this country have no hope.” The story
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Trump pivots toward voters’ concerns - Washington Examiner

Back in Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump forges connections with members of the middle class.

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Last night Biden shored up the media. However if you think he shored up swing voters you spent too much time listening to a media based in DC/NYC-places that never decide an election-& not enough time listening to those who will—many who heard too much anger & divisive politics
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It shouldn’t surprise me anymore. It shouldn’t. But it does. The impression of the Biden’s speech last night coming out of DC & NY among strategist, analysts & reporters is much different than the impression of voters. A word of caution if you are celebrating the speech today.
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That speech that ripped the bark off the tree ⁦ @GovernorShapiro ⁩ gave on Tuesday ahead of ⁦ @VP ⁩ and ⁦ @GovTimWalz ⁩ rally in Philadelphia introducing the Minnesota governor as her veep candidate? He gave it off the cuff Our interview:
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Shapiro speaks: Governor gives interview on being Harris vice president runner-up - Washington...

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) returned to his forte as governor 48 hours after not making the Democratic presidential ticket.

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As a PA reporter cannot wait to ask Harris about her ban on liquid natural gas exports which impacts not just folks in the industry or communities whose tax base depends on it but also farmers who received $193 million in royalties due to LNG exports
Biden’s LNG export embargo hurts farmers too - Washington Examiner

When President Joe Biden halted exports of liquified natural gas, he hurt not just the energy industry, but also lots of Pennsylvania and Ohio farmers.

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After math I was in the bumper when the shots came past me from the left.
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I’m not sure if she does not know if she is in office or doesn’t remember she kicked off a White House tour this Summer in Atlanta pushing the accomplishments of Biden Harris economy. And again where is the pushback in my profession at least skeptical or questioning her?
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Great message from Kamala today: "It will be a day 1 priority to fight to bring down prices. I'll take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging. I'll take on corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents. I will take on Big Pharma and cap the costs of drugs."
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“The word recession is powerful. A lot of economics is psychological. The numbers that came out on Friday is very bad news for the Harris campaign. They were touting a soft landing last week and that is not going to happen now.”
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Middle America rattled by jobs report - Washington Examiner

The unemployment report issued Friday provides evidence of an economy in decline, and it bodes poorly for Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign.

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He looks his age and it’s refreshing and awesome said the woman staring down 65 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Mel Gibson, 68, looks unrecognizable at Vince Vaughn's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in LA
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OTD IN 1865 Abraham Lincoln began his morning with a breakfast of 1 egg & cup of coffee with his wife Mary & sons Robert 21 & Tad, 12. After, as he read the AM papers, Mary told him she had tickets to Grover's Theatre, but she'd prefer to see Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre
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Kamala Harris sent a letter urging Senate Appropriations to reduce funding for Trump administrations “reckless immigration enforcement operations” Saying an increase in Border Patrol/ICE agents/beds & wall funding pose a threat to Dreamers
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Senators Demand Rejection of Trump’s Deportation Force Budget Request | United States Senate...

Washington - Today, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Bob Menendez...

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NEW AD: On the border, the choice is simple. Kamala Harris is fighting to fix our broken immigration system. Donald Trump is trying to stop her.
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After 154 yrs Chevron, the 2nd largest oil company in the US is leaving California for Texas. @Chevron began as “Standard Oil Co. of California” in 1877. It will vacate the 2,000 employees in suburban San Francisco January 1, 2025.
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This is actually the definition of weird. I thank you JMJ & the Holy Ghost that I do not know any grown woman who talks to grown women like this.
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I can’t express how little I want this in my life. It’s is so condescending to the women listening, who need to “put their listening ears on” for BIPOC women who are also condescended to by assuming they can’t hear disagreement.
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The Chabad of Squirrel Hill, the city of Pittsburgh neighborhood where Tree of Life massacre happened 6 years ago, just discovered this tag which includes the pink triangle popularized by the Hamas propaganda videos This happened 2 days after protesters marched thru Pittsburgh
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So I’m wondering if this story was reported multiple times in glossy profiles since 2005 why didn’t Walz ever request a correction?
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This is so messed up. There’s no point in saying don’t do this to media bc they’ll keep doing it in their role as Dem Super PAC, but bear witness to their shameless dishonesty, at least.
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Needed a day away. I grabbed my four grandchildren, my daughter & son-in-law & my 88 year-old parents & took them to my favorite place in the world outside of home. My grandchildren are obsessed with their greatgrandparents & the grand old Bedford Springs. #Blessing #Appalachia
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The day before his glorious rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner my softball team played a doubleheader against him and his roadies at West Penn Park on Polish Hill. My ragtag team of newsies beat them twice. He gave us all tickets to the game and was the nicest person ever.
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Baseball by BSmile
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30 Years Ago Today: Meat Loaf belts out a powerful rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the Major League All-Star Game at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh! (July 12, 1994) #MLB #Baseball #AllStarGame
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Am I the only person who thinks it’s troublesome we’re just talking about the political problems at stake for the Democrats and not the “democracy is at stake because we don’t know who’s running the country” problems?
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🚨WHERE THINGS STAND — A ton of activity in the capitol this am in regards to Joe Biden’s political future. — new dem leadership meeting w Jeffries this am. Concerns at the top level of the caucus about Biden’s drag on frontliners. — frontliners met w Jeffries this am. — CBC
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To deliberately say Vance is not of Appalachia and did not have the very experiences that shaped him and try to strip his sense of place is baffling
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Like all regular people in America's heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community. Come on. I can't wait to debate the guy—that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.
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Pennsylvania—the US snack capital which produces 80% of snacks consumed in the country—employing farmers, manufacturers & truckers who say shrinkflatiron is direct result of them navigating their staggering inflationary costs in making snacks & not greed
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I wonder if people grasp the precipice we are standing on.
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This war has always been one miscalculation away from expanding. It’s a traditional escalation ladder in many ways. It’s why you haven’t seen Israel bombing Beirut and you haven’t seen Hezbollah bombing Tel Aviv. Everyone is calculated. Today the equation changed.
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A thousand times this
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Kinda feel like Biden needs to, you know, say something to the American people pretty soon. Like on camera. This is getting weird.
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“His visit filled the leadership vacuum left behind by Joe Biden’s indifference toward this disaster. It sent a clear message to the rest of the country these people are our fellow Americans & we can’t leave them behind.” ⁦ @JDVance1 ⁩ #EastPalestine
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Trump’s track to victory began when train derailed - Washington Examiner

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The sleet and rain were unforgiving here on Feb. 22, 2023, the day former President Donald Trump came to this small Columbiana County village. Despite the weather and concerns...

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Since the day Biden won PA in November 2020, Democratic voter registration has gone from over 600,000 voter registration advantage to a 389,000 registration advantage, according to the newest numbers released by the Pennsylvania Department of State.
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Democrats should be jittery about Pennsylvania voter registration trends - Washington Examiner

Voter registration numbers in Pennsylvania, especially in blue-collar constitutencies, are trending significantly in the Republicans' direction.

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For the past four years, inflation has rattled local small businesses across the country. The inflation rate peaked in 2022, but of course the cost of goods never went back down. 🧵
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The US economy is worse than assumed, we are preparing to send combat aircraft to the Middle East and that’s just two things happening in the past few hours. Will President Biden address the press on any of this? Seems important.
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An honor to win the bulldog award— you don’t win awards like this because of yourself, you win it because of the people whose stories you tell & whose lives you get to spend a little time with and share with the world. Thank you Washington Examiner for giving me that opportunity.
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Despite the glee coming from Democrats on the cables last night that gush of excitement was not reflective of Democrat voters in Pennsylvania last night “without Biden on the ticket, the chances for Democrats in this all-critical state certainly diminish.”
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Pennsylvania Democrats give mixed response to idea of Harris as nominee - Washington Examiner

Pennsylvania Democratic leaders aren't as enthusiastic about Kamala Harris for president as many elected officials across the country.

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To the clearly nervous trade school student about to stick a needle in his arm to pass her final Vance calmed & reassured her saying, “Don’t be nervous. If you have to do it again I am here for you until you get it right” She got it on the first jab Weird
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Trump message: Meet the moment. Pull each other up. Aspiration. Community. Part of something bigger than self. Pretty much everything he told me in our interview.
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Why do I like this ad so much. This is a very different campaign than he’s ever run before.
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My profession having a “come to Jesus moment” about the decision many made to not try to get the story of Biden’s decline because they were afraid of being accused of helping to elect President Trump. Team Biden played many of you easily because they knew your weak spot.
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Jill Abramson to @semaforben : "The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up of the degree of the President’s feebleness and his serious physical decline"
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Hugs
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Philip Klein
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God bless @ZitoSalena -- so glad you're safe!
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⁦ @KamalaHarris ⁩ announces economic proposal to “impose stiff penalties in the food industry” That’ll have major consequences in the counties that will decide this election in Pennsylvania Why? Well 80% of snacks consumed in this US are made here
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Salena Zito: 'Shrinkflation' means something different in the snack capital

HANOVER, Pa. — This bucolic community graced by rich historic sites, industry and rolling farms — just twenty miles south of the city...

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Turns out it isn’t the Internet that is forever. It’s print.
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Rest assured, if we had no immigration problem, vice president Kamala Harris would be running on the fact that she’s the border czar, and everybody knows it.
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It is not lost on ⁦ @mikeroweworks ⁩ that the 2 places of higher education where you don’t see campuses erupting in violence and destroying the safety of Jewish students are trade schools and community colleges, “Those schools simply don’t go there”
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Community colleges and trade schools are largely void of Israel-Hamas protests - Washington Examiner

TV host Mike Rowe said that eight years ago, he was switching the news channels on his television and saw several college students setting fire to the American flag and dancing around a pile of...

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“Vance’s life story shows the value of meritocracy. He rises up not because of the privilege that he was born in but because this is a country that gave him the opportunity to prove his worth, to prove his merit”
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Did she ever once consider that the people who live 15 minutes outside of large metropolitan cities feel the way NPR covers them or questions their beliefs & value systems is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning to them?
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Ben Mullin
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NEW: NPR chief executive Katherine Maher addresses the criticism of the network this week “Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”
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Still do
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Who had these?
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Yinzers do not suffer Jagoffs at our front door especially on Friday movie night with the kids. That’s just facts.
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Clay Travis
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Pro-Palestinian protesters showed up to John Fetterman’s home to chant that he supported genocide. Fetterman went to his roof & waved an Israeli flag at them. I can’t believe it, but I’m starting to really like & respect Fetterman. 2024 is wild, y’all.
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Did a sleepover at my daughter and son-in-law’s so they could go away for their 10 year wedding anniversary the grandkids had a “Happetizer” of bananas and peanut butter then then homemade pancakes. #BestDayEver
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In January just as the primaries were kicking off, I wrote if Trump prevailed his inflection point began when he visited East Palestine a year earlier with @JDVance1 on a gray, bitter cold day, walking around in galoshes, showing up to see the devastation in this tiny village
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“His visit filled the leadership vacuum left behind by Joe Biden’s indifference toward this disaster. It sent a clear message to the rest of the country these people are our fellow Americans & we can’t leave them behind.” ⁦ @JDVance1 ⁩ #EastPalestine
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The most important 42 miles in American politics lies between #EastPalestine and Butler, Pennsylvania.
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“I cannot get the White House to give a crap about these people,” said @JDVance1 in our interview of his request for NIH baseline health study of #EastPalestine residents. Of Biden he says, “I’m going to hope that they get off their asses to do something”
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sounds like the real PA Dept of State website: . It’s logo looks very similar to the blue keystone w/ white PA used in official state websites. And yet it’s not. It’s a Dem run operation harvesting your info.
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Democratic-aligned voter registration website harvests personal data for partisan, political...

One Republican lawmaker called the website an “obvious attempt to steal information from voters or potential voters.” By Todd Shepherd

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Doing some Butler County coverage today #MiddleOfSomewhere
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This is beautiful @dougmillsnyt
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A shadow of @realDonaldTrump 's plane is seen in a farm cut like The American Flag, as he lands in  St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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10 years ago after baking 3K cookies for my daughters wedding (if you are from the Rust Belt you know about the #cookietable if not I included a link to my story about it) my beloved Wedgewood I spent $25 & cooked on for 28 years expired #istillmiss
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Shapiro told the apprentices— “Look, I know a lot of you probably didn’t vote for me, and that’s okay. I’m here today to see what you do and how your skills will, in turn, make your community and the state more prosperous” Our interview:
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I was for banning fracking before I was against banning fracking.
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Rachel Frazin
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NEW: Harris will NOT seek to ban fracking if she's elected president, an official with her campaign told me. When she was running for prez in a crowded 2019 primary, she did support a fracking ban.
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If you wonder about JD Vance chops with the unions here is our interview on the picket line in Toledo. He was on the picket line with @UAW workers in Ohio. Here is our interview there.:
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Minnesota is one of the eight states where capital is fleeing and people are fleeing and jobs are fleeing.
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For decades rural voters have been disparaged w/ “bitter” “clinging to guns & God” “deplorable & “weird” or “rage filled” now all of a sudden there are think pieces about Carhartt overalls, Pennsylvania tuxedos, orange vests & attending a Grange meeting
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Things people carry to their grave
@beyondreasdoubt
My god
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